Category: data

Developed a data interface, in collaboration with Dr. Nicole Donofrio et al. (University of Delaware). The Lima Bean Data Inteface is part of a USDA funded multi-institution lima bean research grant. The interface provides capabilities for disseminating the work of the plant and soil scientists to stakeholders, such as processors and growers and other scientists. The interface allows visualization,…

I had previously written about a strange projection in the NOAA/CLIMAPS data, and am now following that up with a strange projection in the Climate Atlas of the US data. This data comes to the end user with no spatial reference or documentation on disk which describes the spatial reference. However, I found a helpful…

ArcGIS Online allows a user to upload CSVs, but as we found out, this feature provides less extensive sharing capabilities than other comparable cloud hosting services. The documentation describes CSV hosting. It is possible to upload the file for others in a group to download, but it seems that the ability to share the CSV,…

Is there a bug with the “table to table” tool in ArcGIS when using it to export a DBF from an Excel file (XLS, XLSX)? I don’t know. BUT, I would avoid using any Excel files in ArcGIS. This would be one of many poorly documented bugs … support for Excel in ArcGIS is a…